男子

Chinese

male
 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 pm-1 am; midnight
simp. and trad.
(男子)
男 子

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 男 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 覃 (159) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 那含切 即里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nʌm/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəm/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɒm/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəm/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/nᴀm/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/nɒm/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/năm/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán zǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
naam4 zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 男 子
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán zǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ nom › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁ[ə]m/ /*tsəʔ/
English man, male child; gentleman, master

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 男 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9354 17857
Phonetic
component
男 子
Rime
group
侵 之
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
南 子
Old
Chinese
/*nuːm/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

男子

  1. (formal) man; male (Classifier: 個/个 m c; 名 m c)

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
男 子
だん
Grade: 1
し
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

男(だん)子(し) • (danshi) 

  1. a male ; a guy
  • Note: in terms of grammar and linguistics, the word solely means a "male". However, abroad it is often translated as "boy" to contrast to the term 男性, which refers to a man in general. The difference being one refers to the gender-specific male, while the other a singular man.

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • 男子学生(だんしがくせい) (danshi gakusei): male student
  • 男子高(だんしこう) (danshikō): boys' highschool (male high school)
  • 男子高校(だんしこうこう) (danshi kōkō): boys' highschool (male high school)
  • 男子生徒(だんしせいと) (danshi seito): school boy (alternative to saying male student)

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
男子

Noun

男子 • (namja) (hangeul 남자)

  1. Hanja form? of 남자 (“man; gentleman; boy; male”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
男子

Noun

男子

  1. chữ Hán form of nam tử (“boy; son”).
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